Cathedral Choral Society 2017.18 Season Brochure

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IN OUR 2017.18 SEASON we are delighted to welcome four guest conductors from around the country to work with the chorus and to lead these inspiring programs.

Alongside this, the Cathedral Choral Society is in the midst of a national search for our third Music Director following the leadership of Paul Callaway and J. Reilly Lewis. We anticipate announcing a new Music Director during the 2017.18 Season. Stay tuned!

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MOZART REQUIEM JOY OF CHRISTMAS SOLITUDE AND JOY BERNSTEIN THE HUMANITARIAN

Bernstein

THE HUMANITARIAN

Mozart REQUIEM

SUNDAY, MAY 20 4:00 PM

JOY OF

Christmas SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16 2:00 & 7:00 PM

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15 4:00 PM

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 4:00 PM

Mozart, Requiem in D Minor, K.626 Morten Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna

Betsy Burleigh, guest conductor Lyric Brass Quintet Washington Latin Public Charter School, Melissa Nevola, conductor

Kent Tritle, guest conductor Danielle Talamantes, soprano Sara Murphy, mezzo-soprano Alex Richardson, tenor Matt Boehler, bass Written as Mozart approached death, his Requiem provides profound moments of great vastness and sublime tenderness.

Centered on the theme of light, Morten Lauridsen’s “non-liturgical requiem” emanates hope, reassurance, and serenity.

Celebrate the warm spirit of the season in a majestic setting.

A well-loved Washington, DC holiday tradition, this concert includes Christmas favorites and a festive carol sing-along. The program will feature a newly commissioned carol by popular British composer Paul Mealor.

SOLITUDE AND

Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man Haydn, Mass in C Major, Hob. XXII:9 (Mass in Time of War) Bernstein, “Make Our Garden Grow” from Candide Bernstein, Halil Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor,

Op. 125 (“Choral”), IV. Presto

Joy

SUNDAY, MARCH 4 4:00 PM Donald Nally, guest conductor Thomas Mesa, cello Our musical journey follows this lyrical prose by writer Pascal Quignard. Hymns, chants, and anthems invoke awe in the brilliance of the stars and earth, inviting wonder and contemplation.

Gabriel Jackson, Creator of the Stars at Night Sebastian Currier, Night Mass, Sanctus Howells, Behold, O God, Our Defender Tavener, Svyati James MacMillan, A New Song

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Without solitude, without the test of time, without the passion for silence, without the excitation and retention of the whole body, without a frightened stumbling, without wandering into a region of shade and invisibility, without memory of animality, without melancholy, without isolation in melancholy, there is no joy.

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Pēteris Vasks, Grãmata Čellam Arvo Pärt, Salve Regina Ēriks Ešenvalds, New Commission

(World Premiere) Howells, O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

Lawrence Loh, guest conductor Demarre McGill, flute Alexandra Loutsion, soprano Laurel Semerdjian, mezzo-soprano William Davenport, tenor Reginald Smith, Jr., baritone Leonard Bernstein was an active advocate for peace and nuclear disarmament throughout his life. Through music, video, photos, and spoken word, we honor Bernstein, the humanitarian.

On Friday, January 19, 1973, the eve of Richard Nixon’s second inauguration, Bernstein conducted “A Concert for Peace” at Washington National Cathedral. The piece was Haydn’s Mass in Time of War. The concert began at 9:00 pm – the exact time that inaugural concerts were scheduled to begin at the Kennedy Center. Bernstein and the Cathedral staff welcomed an overflowing audience of nearly 18,000 people in the building and on the lawn.

The concert was a plea for peace in a turbulent time.

Photo: Bernstein with Norman Scribner at rehearsal. Cathedral Age Archives, Matthew Holsen.